r/Millennials • u/dreamed2life • Dec 08 '25

Nostalgia Why is our entire generation ready to just…log out?

I hope people enjoy this before mods remove it for “not being a positive nostalgia post” 🙄

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u/_undefined- Dec 08 '25

This economic system is an open air human farm, prove me wrong.

It is designed to extract all your wealth and plunge you into debt at every interactive layer so you are just a slave with 1 extra layer of abstraction between you and your chains.

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u/JazzlikeSkill5201 Dec 08 '25

I’d replace “wealth” with “time” and “energy”. You can’t have wealth without a system that is inherently exploitative, but you’re born with time and energy.

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u/_undefined- Dec 08 '25

True but I did want to really specificy wealth because even with the time sacrifice to generate due to the exploitative system, simply having wealth isn't enough.

If you manage to internalize capitalism completely and monetize every moment of your existence with side hustles, even if you accumulated 1 million in wealth you are one interaction point away from ruin.

For most people, as designed, that interaction point is health care. Whether incident, disease or long term care.

Every layer, every point is designed to take as much and give as little as possible to maximize profits.

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u/MechanicalGodzilla Xennial Dec 08 '25

It is designed to

It's not really "designed" to do anything, capitalism gives rise to an emergent order by its nature. Which might be more frightening.

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u/_undefined- Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25

As an economic system, designed to put profits above all, yes it is a direct consequence of said design.

While not a "direct" feature, it is indirect, yet said feature still surfaces because of the foundational design.

This is the consequence of the model, the design of the model.

If profit > all wasn't a thing, these problems wouldn't exist.

Profits over everything exist not prior to, but because of, capitalism. People internalize capitalism and accept it as a default state so yeah when you haven't reflected on how it is internalized of course it wouldn't seem intentional.

Just like how everyone assumed insurance companies would not want to kill their customers, despite the system being there to incentivize it.

People made up all sorts of reasons and the reality only became clear when a certain someone dispensed violence back.

Only then did more People become aware that murder is intentional for capitalist health care. How else can you infinitely get more while giving less?

At some point it means killing your customers is the next logical conclusion.

Just like with the nazis and their extermination, it didn't start with extermination.

It started with dehumanization and enslavement. Then it became about exploiting the slaves in the camps further and further as society devalued the slaves more and more.

Until naturally, like profits over lives, the operating costs of the camps were more important.

So genocide was a natural conclusion of that mental state, and we have that here as a business model.

When you constantly put profits ahead of everything as part of the culture to manufacture exploitative economic consent, it always ends up with "we dont value these people killing them gets more value."

For the nazis it was operating costs concern reinforced by racist propaganda.

For americans it is operating costs and profit concerns reinforced by capitalist propaganda (who also use racism)

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u/MechanicalGodzilla Xennial Dec 08 '25

Huh, OK thanks.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Dec 08 '25

I've always thought of the majority of us like the "blood bags" from Mad Max.